The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.The crowd was down a bit on previous years for the Cobar Miners Race Club Picnic Races on Saturday but punters, trainers, jockeys and owners (maybe not the bookies) enjoyed their day out. Victorian trainer Russell Green from Wangaratta (pictured at centre) was pleased he’d made the long trip to Cobar after his horse Lord Percy won the Allan Wells Memorial Cobar Picnic Cup.
Based at Wangaratta, Victoria, trainer Russell Green has often raced his team at meetings in western New South Wales and on Saturday he won the 1,700 metres DJW & Wells Cobar Picnic Cup with Lord Percy.
Starting the $8 outsider in the Cup, Lord Percy (ridden by Zara Lewis) took the lead from Outback Cod and in the straight fought off the challenge from Coastal Groove (Leandro Ribeiro, $2.30) and Joshua (Todd Bailey, $2 favourite).
Blackhill Kitty is entitled to be early favourite for the $50,000 Picnic Champions Series Final at Dubbo in September after winning at Cobar on Saturday, and finishing on top of the point score qualifying ladder for the Final.
From near last in the 1,400 metres Nutrien Russell Trophy Handicap, Blackhill Kitty (Leandro Ribeiro, $3.20 favourite) reeled in the leader Loud (Ricky Blewitt, $4.20) to win by a length with Different Road (Paul Zerafa, $10) in third place.
Horses trained at Tumbarumba by Mont Waters hold track records at several venues and it was another record when Cassimir ($4), ridden by Mont’s daughter Emily Waters, came from midfield to beat the leader Spirit Lake (Bessie Dimery, $3 favourite) and Obsessive Nature (Ashley Boyd, $4.60) in the 1,000 metres Cynend Building & Construction Trophy Handicap.
Widely travelled Forbes trainer Bill Hayes, who has had starters from King Island, Tasmania to outback NSW over the past seven months, won the 1,000 metres Cobar Steel Class B Handicap with Rubicon River.
Parked behind the leaders turning for home, Rubicon River (Ashley Boyd, $6) finished best to beat Spotted (Ricky Blewitt, $3 favourite) and Savvy Statement (Emily Waters, $4.40)
Owned by Andy Barrow and family from Gunnedah and trained at Gilgandra by Kieren Hazelton, Ransom’s Girl (Ricky Blewitt, $2.10 favourite) won the 1,000 metres WEIR Minerals Maiden Plate while the Ray Hartley, Tamworth-trained Point To Prove ($2.20 favourite) won the 1,400 metres Sullivans Mining & Industrial Class B Handicap.—Colin Hodges
Government surety in the form of $2 million worth of funding will ensure that Cobar’s commercial air service, along with air services for Bourke, Walgett and Lightning Ridge, will continue to operate for another year. Minister for Regional NSW, Tara Moriarty announced on Friday the Minns Labor Government would be […]
The Lilliane Brady Village retirement home residents and staff are ready to hit the road following the delivery of their new bus last week. The new Toyota Hiace 10 seater bus, which is part of Cobar Shire Council’s fleet of vehicles, was personally delivered to the Village last Thursday with […]
Finally, after a run of miserable weather and washed-out events, Cobar enjoyed perfect golfing conditions for the annual Cobar Men’s Golf Open on Sunday. There was a field of 56 players who came from Cobar, Nyngan, Tottenham, Brewarrina, Narromine, Singleton, Gilgandra and Murray Downs. Jay Egan has been the leading […]
